The caption explained that the ship was leaving Fiji carrying many tons of dried sea cucumbers. Hay realized that the creatures he would rarely see while diving and working around reefs had likely ...

The soft, cylindrical sea cucumber looks like a vegetable — and in some countries, it's a delicacy because of its nutritional ...

In a complicated process of boiling and smoke-drying, the skin of sea cucumbers, also known by the more dulcet French sobriquet bêche-de-mer, is dried for preservation purposes and later re ...

They are a luxury food item in Asian markets, sold as the dried and then-reconstituted delicacy bêche-de-mer or trepang. The United States also imports thousands of sea cucumbers a year, with volume ...

The detection this week by Indian forest officers of a stock of dried sea horses and sea cucumbers meant to be sent to Sri Lanka has underscored the need to strengthen cooperation between the two ...

The animal is dried and exported primarily to Asia where it is consumed for purported health purposes. These sea cucumbers typically grow to about the size of a man’s foot and have leathery, bumpy ...